Freedom of information (FOI) releases from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
This is a disclosure log of UK Research and Innovation's responses to freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) requests that might be of wider public interest.
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1,058 disclosures
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Request Received: 29 December 2023
I wish to make an FOI request. Please provide me with the following information for the financial years 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23.
All expenditure made by your organisation, in every facet of its operations and purview, on translation, interpretation, and language services.
Please provide the aggregated total spent by your organisation and then, if possible, please provide this broken down by particular function for which the service was carried out.
Published: 25 January 2024
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Request Received: 21 November 2023
I would like to make the following freedom of interest request:
The information I am looking for relates to the genesis of the National Quantum Technologies Programme, which was announced in the Autumn Statement of 2013. Based on secondary research, I have learned that, largely driven by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), a meeting was held at Chicheley Hall both to review the state of quantum developments, and also to map the current UK activities in quantum technologies across academia, industry and government. That meeting and a resulting UK Quantum Technology Landscape document galvanised the quantum tech community to bid to government for a major "Quantum Technologies" (QT) initiative. That bid was successful, and the government provided £270m over a five-year period for the first phase of this programme.
I cannot find the original UK Quantum Technology Landscape document through secondary research, though I can locate subsequent publications in 2014 and 2016 (attached below).
I would like to see, if possible, the documentation and information regarding this "bid" to the government and the subsequent discussions that took place that resulted in the Autumn statement announced by the then Chancellor in 2013.
I'm curious to learn what information was provided to the government that convinced them to release the necessary funds.
https://www.quantumcommshub.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/QuantumTechnologyLandscape.pdf
https://uknqt.ukri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/UK-Quantum-Technology-Landscape-2016.pdf
Dates: Timeframe would be 2012-2013
People and organizations involved: There are many people that are listed on the very last page of the documents I've copied above, but some key people are DSTL, Dr. David Delpy, Dr. Helen Margolis
Published: 24 January 2024
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Request Received: 1 November 2023
Under the FOIA, can I have a list of all the projects funded by UKRI over the last 10 years, the Challenge Director guidelines and funding therein, the demographic makeup and socio-economic makeup of the winners and applicants please.
Clarification Received: 7 November 2023
UKRI implements a process of portfolio grant awards. It is stated on the website that the Challenge Director of each grant sets the portfolio approach based on the Strategic objectives of UKRI and the UK government. The Challenge Director would or should have guidelines on what these strategic guidelines are, what proportion to allocate to each area of interest/investment, how to apply this policy and how to publish the same. There should be processes and guidelines to follow for the Challenge Director.
Additional Information Requested: 8 November 2023
May I also trouble you to confirm that the FOIA requests pertaining to the UKRI assessment processes will be made available please.
• How a Challenge Director is chosen.
• How a Challenge Director or grant runner is given strategic objectives
• How the assessors are audited to ensure consistency and standards of assessment
• How the successful applicants are chosen if not simply on assessed marks
• Assessor guidance and training
• The Internal UKRI review process post grant ground being completed
• The UKRI strategic objectives and commercial objectives
• The demographics and socio-economic background of the successful applicants
• The Objectives of the Net Zero Directors and UKRI Objectives in this regard
• How many grants across UKRI have gone to the same group of applicants or stakeholder who may have multiple companies
Published: 22 January 2024
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Request Received: 16 October 2023
Clarification Received: 25 November 2023
I write to submit a freedom of information request in relation to the Innovate UK Unlocking Potential Award (Begin strand) for the 2023 competition.
Please disclose an Excel spreadsheet with rows for each applicant in the competition (anonymized) and columns for: (1) the scores given to each applicant for each of the scored questions, (2) the overall score for each applicant, and (3) whether that applicant was successful.
For the avoidance of doubt, I am not requesting any identifying information about any applicants - I would only like to know the relevant scores.
Published: 22 January 2024
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Request Received: 17 November 2023
Thanks for the response [to FOI2023/00764]. Please specify:
• The number of sites for each contract
• I understand that you cannot provide me with the full contact details, but can you at least provide me with their actual job title?
• Adkins Bakery Ltd, Novus Environmental, Tradebe Healthcare and ADSM contracts are expired. Please provide the latest contract updates
Published: 22 January 2024
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Request Received: 12 December 2023
For Innovate UK's Smart grants: June 2023 competition (both the <18 month (<£500k) and >18 month streams), please could you release the following information:
1. The number of applications.
2. The number of assessed applications.
3. The number of successful applications.
4. The success rate.
5. The minimum successful score.
6. The maximum successful score.
7. Maximum score of failed applications.
8. Average grant fund value per project.
9. Average score of funded projects.
10. The score distributions of the applications (e.g. % (or number) of applications which scored <70, 70.1-75, 75.1-80, 80.1-85, 85.1-90, 90.1-95, 95.1-100).
11. The count of assessed applications by innovation area.
12. The count of successful projects by innovation area for each strand.
13. The count of assessed applications by research category (feasibility studies, industrial research, experimental development).
14. The count of successful projects by research category.
15. The number of unsuccessful applications, if any, which scored above the minimum funded score.
Published: 15 January 2024
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Request Received: 7 November 2023
I would like to see the decision-making process behind the London supplement [to the UKRI PhD student stipend], such as minutes from relevant meetings, or policy documents.
Published: 9 January 2024
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Request Received: 2 November 2023
I'm not sure if ref.ac.uk is meant to respond to FOI requests, but for the purposes of research into consistency of academic judgements I'd like to request the following:
For the outputs submitted in UoA 4, the independent ratings of reviewers prior to consulting with one another, and the agreed rating of reviewers. I'm only interested in the correlation of ratings and how they relate to the agreed rating. There would be no information about the identity of the outputs or the identity of the reviewers.
For example, for a set of 100 outputs with 2 reviewers, this would mean a table of 100 rows and 3 columns, the 3 columns being: rating of reviewer1, rating of reviewer2, agreed rating. From this information, nothing can be learned or inferred about individual outputs or individual reviewers.
NO information is requested about the identity of the outputs or the identity of the reviewers.
Published: 8 January 2024
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Request Received: 25 September 2023
Could I request the following information using the Freedom of Information Act.
For UKRI's Collective Talent Funding stream, please include the following information for each of the years, 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 (worth £599 million, £670 million and £726 million respectively)
Please state for each financial year:
For each year, please state how much (in millions of pounds) each research council will receive from the Collective Talent Funding Stream. For each year, please state how many PhD studentships will be funded, or have been funded (or are expected to be funded) by each research council
For each year, please state how many fellowships will be funded by each research council - and also the length of the fellowships offered by each research council. Please also state the amount that each research council will spend on fellowships for each year.
Please also state, for each year, how much money will be allocated to cross-council doctoral studentships (if any), and how much PhD studentships will be funded in this way.
Published: 4 January 2024
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Request Received: 29 September 2023
I would like to request information under the Freedom of Information Act. The information that I require relates to a specific telephone maintenance contract.
The contract information sent by the organisation previously has now expired please can you provide me with a new update of the telephone maintenance contract:
Please can you send me the following contract information with regards to the organisation's telephone system maintenance contract (VOIP or PBX, other) for hardware and Software maintenance and support if all the information is still the same besides the contracts dates please send just the new contract dates. It would be much appreciated. 1. Co
ntract Type: Maintenance, Managed, shared (If so, please state orgs)
2. Existing Supplier: If there is more than one supplier, please split each contract up individually.
3. Annual Average Spend: The annual average spends for this contract and please provide the average spend over the past 3 years for each provider
4. Hardware Brand: The primary hardware brand of the organisation's telephone system.
5. Number of telephone users:
6. Contract Duration: please include any extension periods.
7. Contract Expiry Date: Please provide me with the day/month/year.
8. Contract Review Date: Please provide me with the day/month/year.
9. Application(s) running on PBX/VOIP systems: Applications that run on the actual PBX or VOIP system. E.g., Contact Centre, Communication Manager.
10. Telephone System Type: PBX, VOIP, Lync etc
11. Contract Description: Please provide me with a brief description of the overall service provided under this contract.
12. Go to Market: How where these services procured, please provide me with either the tender notice or the framework reference number. Please specify if procured through other routes.
13. Contact Detail: Of the person from within the organisation responsible for each contract full Contact details including full name, job title, direct contact number and direct email address.
If the service support area has more than one provider for telephone maintenance, then can you please split each contract up individually for each provider.
If the contract is a managed service or is a contract that provides more than just telephone maintenance, please can you send me all the information specified above including the person from within the organisation responsible for that particular contract.
If the maintenance for telephone systems is maintained in-house, please can you provide me with:
1. Number of telephone Users:
2. Hardware Brand: The primary hardware brand of the organisation's telephone system.
3. Application(s) running on PBX/VOIP systems: Applications that run on the actual PBX or VOIP system. E.g., Contact Centre, Communication Manager.
4. Contact Detail: Of the person from with the organisation responsible for telephone maintenance full Contact details including full name, job title, direct contact number and direct email address.
Also, if the contract is due to expire, please provide me with the likely outcome of the expiring contract. If this is a new contract or a new supplier, please can you provide me with a short list of suppliers that bid on this service/support contract?
I'm happy to receive this information in an email.
Published: 4 January 2024